[PATCH v4 03/17] fs/kernel_read_file: Remove FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED enum

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Wed Jul 29 17:58:31 UTC 2020


The "FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED" enum is a "where", not a "what". It
should not be distinguished separately from just "FIRMWARE", as this
confuses the LSMs about what is being loaded. Additionally, there was
no actual validation of the firmware contents happening.

Fixes: e4c2c0ff00ec ("firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden at broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
To aid in backporting, this change is made before moving
kernel_read_file() to separate header/source files.
---
 drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c | 2 +-
 include/linux/fs.h                               | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c
index 685edb7dd05a..6958ab1a8059 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ int firmware_fallback_platform(struct fw_priv *fw_priv, u32 opt_flags)
 	if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_FALLBACK_PLATFORM))
 		return -ENOENT;
 
-	rc = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED);
+	rc = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f34d47ba49de..0d4f7aacf286 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2993,11 +2993,10 @@ static inline void i_readcount_inc(struct inode *inode)
 #endif
 extern int do_pipe_flags(int *, int);
 
-/* This is a list of *what* is being read, not *how*. */
+/* This is a list of *what* is being read, not *how* nor *where*. */
 #define __kernel_read_file_id(id) \
 	id(UNKNOWN, unknown)		\
 	id(FIRMWARE, firmware)		\
-	id(FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED, firmware)	\
 	id(MODULE, kernel-module)		\
 	id(KEXEC_IMAGE, kexec-image)		\
 	id(KEXEC_INITRAMFS, kexec-initramfs)	\
-- 
2.25.1



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